{"id":556,"date":"2007-12-20T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2007-12-12T13:26:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T17:26:37","slug":"tim-powers-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Tim Powers Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SF Revue has a fairly lengthy interview with Tim Powers, whom I&#8217;ve discussed <A HREF=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=101\">previously<\/A>, and who was kind enough to join us in <A HREF=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/downloads\/logs\/i-powers.log\">chat<\/A> a few years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SFRevu: We won&#8217;t try to classify exactly which genre your writing falls under, but do you find this actually helps you rather than hinders you? In other words, you&#8217;re not bound by the particulars of any one genre.<\/p>\n<p>Tim: I think of the genre I write in as &#8220;that stuff that gets reviewed in Locus.&#8221; If I had to get more specific I might say I write Urban Fantasy &#8212; certainly there always seems to be some supernatural element in my stuff &#8212; but also I certainly feel free to put in scientific-sounding scaffolding! (Thank God for <I>Asimov&#8217;s<\/I> science articles!) The only thing I&#8217;d insist I&#8217;m not doing &#8212; not that anyone has said I do it &#8212; is mainstream. I can&#8217;t imagine writing a story in which somebody&#8217;s dead grandfather does <EM>not<\/EM> call him up on the phone at some point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun to read about his creative process.  The fact that he&#8217;s co-authored a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1931081468\/sr=8-1\/qid=1197048449\/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&#038;me=&#038;qid=1197048449&#038;sr=8-1&#038;tag=shadmano-20\">cookbook<\/A> with James Blaylock was somewhat surprising.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfrevu.com\/php\/Review-id.php?id=6496\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\">SF Signal<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF Revue has a fairly lengthy interview with Tim Powers, whom I&#8217;ve discussed previously, and who was kind enough to join us in chat a few years ago. SFRevu: We won&#8217;t try to classify exactly which genre your writing falls under, but do you find this actually helps you rather than hinders you? In other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}